Coca-Cola may be one of the most recognized brands on earth, but we bet that there'a lot you still don't know about it.

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20 things you didn’t know about Coca-Cola

Its First Diet Cola Was Tab

Here’s some trivia: What was the first diet drink released by Coca-Cola? It wasn’t Diet Coke; it was Tab. Released in 1963 to compete with Royal Crown’s Diet Rite, Tab was immensely popular through the 1970s. Coca-Cola was initially reluctant to release a diet soda with “Coca-Cola” in its name (they were afraid it would take market share away from flagship Coke), but after seeing the success of Diet Pepsi, which was released in 1964, they developed Diet Coke (which has a completely different recipe from Coca-Cola) and released it in 1982.